Juice

I have a son who really likes orange juice (or at least, I think he does), but the dose of vitamin C can wreak substantial havoc with his health. It is a fraught relationship about which he is very responsible, and which he handles with impressive equanimity. The conflict is certainly worth recognizing on an album devoted to orangeness. 

In this case, I fed Suno with a segment of orange noise and a noodled tunicle designed to have a heroic vibe.

Contrary to my customary methods, this time I started out specifying structural elements without other lyrics (i.e., only the metatags), tinkering until the music conveyed the emotional tone that I was waiting for… bombastic and emotionally intense, with plaintive passages. 

After nurturing that music into the desired shape, I went back and added the minimalist lyrics into those structures… which of course triggered substantial rounds of new trials.

I’m pretty pleased with the result.

Here are the lyrics.